I found the paralell you gave there between photons and medieval angels to be interesting anyway.
I wanted to talk about the concept of gravity, as relates to lucifer and 'evil', because I found that interesting as well.
The traditional interpretation of the figure of lucifer (and by this I mean the older, not the contemporary) was, as most mythological figures, a multi-faceted one. As a composite the figure was most strongly reminiscent of the interaction between spirit and matter, symbolised on several levels - and bear with me while I deviate or skip to the next paragraph :) - such as human consciousness, as we might see in the figure of loki, the trikster god who was as much a hero of the eddas as a villain, or the greek prometheus. On another level we have consciousness and life itself, such as the buddhist avalokiteshvara or the greek eros, who in the orphic hymns is a creation god - again similar to the role of vishnu in the hindu vedas - who then later is relegated to the human counterpart of that binding force between aspects of the universe - that is, symbolically love, the binding of two into one - as cupid, son of venus/aphrodite (and this makes clearer the association of lucifer, the 'bright star of the morning' with venus, who in pre-mithraic times was often depicted as a male figure also).
In this role of binding and interaction we also see similarities with lucifer with the sanskrit term fohat - or agni, fire - again spoken of as a physical and spiritual force, as the vehicle and messenger of divine will, taking the role of accreting matter to itself, of forming that matter into spheres and sending it into motion, in much the same way as we would understand electromagnetic and gravitational activity, so in this respect the parallel could be made.
However, it is not entirely accurate to me, as fohat (and indeed eros/vishnu) are conceptualised as spiritual, or rather, psychological forces with physical effects. If matter/mass itself is considered as the medieval alchemists did - symbolising the earth in some ways by the colour black and representing 'evil', furtherest from the purely spiritual - then gravity would be the higher spiritual aspect of that mass, the same as magnetism could be considered in relation to electricity, so the analogy breaks down, but is interesting none the less.
Post edited May 25, 2011 by brother-eros